Slashdot is international, which is probably why you USians consider it "left leaning"

So, T-Mobile is undersubscribed, (Wee, bandwidth!) and gets 3 billion to build up their network with... Invest 85/15% in infrastructure / the advertising campaign they're gonna need, and they might well become a significant player on the US market again, wouldn't you say?

And full speed LTE on a carrier with a solid network is a beautiful thing.

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Those numbers are over a year old, when Spotify was still very young and few people signed up for the Premium service.

Today, these numbers, and by extension band income, have improved to the point where at least Fono (The association for independent Norwegian record companies) have reversed their stance from ~the time you specify, and now recommend artists embrace Spotify.

The deals Spotify sign are secret, so we don't know exactly how much they're getting - but income is improving and will likely improve even more - as the Free service has been reduced to 20 hours/month, and paying for Premium is required for things like streaming to your mobile (the feature that convinced me to upgrade).

So yes, the artists should celebrate getting paid ever growing amounts (as more Premium users enter the service) through an innovative service rather than people just downloading their stuff for free.

Not to mention that the most common 'legal alternative' is streaming both music and video from Youtube for free...

It seems to make sense that if Androids dream of Electric Sheep, I should start dreaming of Robotic Sheep any day now.

Well that's what Cyborgs ought to do, don't you think?

Besides - given the alternatives, at the current level of robotic technology that's about the level I'd be comfortable with a fully robotic solution ;-)

If things go as well as I hope within 10 years I will have a large, heavily advanced robotic part in me. An Artificial Lung, to be specific. They've already got them working, so I hope that in 10 years I can add one to my heavily reduced capacity, and maybe even move further downwards from the oxygen levels at the peak of Kilimanjaro, or so.

You know, you guys at sea level have way more oxygen. And if I could get an artificial lung added to my current heavily oxygen-limited capacity (If I tried participating in the Olympics (friends are welcome to start the jokes about me qualifying for the olympics just about now), I'd be disqualified for the number of red blood cells in my blood samples. Blood doping, the birth-defect way. Would be cool to suddenly have a working body again. I'll need some kind of pump for my heart function at some point, though, as my heart is growing alarmingly large.

These are the problems microrobotics will (and is) solving, and also the parts we'll come to trust first.

Would also be cool if the 'Part-Robotic Superhero' things turn out to be realistic. Given the levels of recent top-notch military technology, I rather believe I'd become a fairly effective soldier as a cyborg/enhanced human. I hope they don't stick optical cables into my brain - because it does seem preferable to be in control of my own body.

I wonder when we'll see partly braindead soldiers 'resurrected' as remote-controlled flesh drones utilizing two-way optogenetics and stem cell networks...

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Oh, and a good way to force Cisco to make some kind of statement would be to request them from your Cisco representatives, on Cisco forums like http://forums.cisco.com/ecom/web/sms3/forums/-/message_boards/category/13121 , etc.

Sending printed letters to

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134 USA

is also probably a good idea.

I mean, if they lay flat, fire the legal team in question and commit to publically planning how to ensure abuses of process of this scale, or even far lower scales will happen again, that'd probably be a good move.

If they don't respond with a great amount of humility and regret, I know I'll stay as far away from Cisco and their surrounding chain of companies as practical, and make a habit of informing my customers on good reasons to avoid Cisco.

The current judgement was only to apply the 'stay of proceedings' on the extradition request, as that was what the client sought. It appears Mr. Adekeye will be launching a claim against Cisco, and hopefully this will get the mainstream media on the story.

He's been trying to enter the U.S. for years, but would not break visa (which has also apparently been used against him, and Cisco attemting contempt of court pleadings even though they very clearly knew exactly why he was not there, and where he was.

Claiming he was a Nigerian citizen pretending to travel under a U.K. password and 'claiming to live in Switzerland'. This lie was repeated during the extradition request to the Canadian authorities, even though his completely valid U.K. passport had very recently spent 5 weeks in the London U.S. Embassy, a fact that was also known to Cisco and presumably Cisco's councel.

If the U.S. authorities wanted him arrested, the easiest way would have been to respond to one of his multiple and very recent requests to enter the U.S.

There's a lot more, if someone else who read the whole thing could respond with more highlights, that'd probably be informative.

In conclusion, what seems to have happened here is that Cisco, in retaliation for a lawsuit against them, has colluded illegally with the U.S. Justice Department on using deceit and lies, abuse of process and every legal bullshit tactic the nastiest lawyer team from hell could think up to put the defendant under maximum legal pressure since a company he is involved with had the audacity to sue Cisco. Oh, and the settlement in the lawsuit seems to have favored said company and not Cisco.

This is so nasty I'll be demanding a written response from Cisco on what measures they are taking to ensure this never happens again if I am to be in conscience ever to recommend a Cisco product again.

And I hope his suit for damages (and hopefully punitive damage) gets the attention it deserves and that he is awarded ample millions and Cisco and the Department of Justice a public and very heavy black eye. This is behavior we cannot accept from corporations or anyone.

The Catholic Church is probably happy with the poster of this +5 informative post.

Obviously, we need to be made aware of this fact.

Over the last 10 years, the global economy has moved apx. 1 *billion* people out of poverty. Think of the equivalent of USA + geographic Europe undergoing the industrial revolution and following 100 years in 10.

So Americans are losing their jobs - cry me a river.

Maybe if your corporations wern't tying up huge parts of your economy in cash reserves (about USD $1 trillion worth atm, effectively stuck in mattresses), while at the same time reducing wages (and thereby consumption), your economy would be more healthy. Yeah - US corporations clearly need more tax cuts.
And don't even get me started on the economic logic of having a military spending equivalent to the sum of the *17 other biggest military spenders* in the world. (2009 numbers)

Yeah, that's right. You're spending about as much as China, UK, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Spain, Turkey, Israel and Greece do *combined*

I'd look to other things than globalization and outsourcing jobs as the cause of your economic worries.

Well, it could be worse...

Icecreaming, you screaming...

Yeah. It's a real shame serial killers get inconvenienced by laws against murder, right?
I mean, just because we're complicit in the future deaths of millions(at the very least) due to starvation and extreme weather, heavens forbid we should have to "buckle down and do our part"...

I do see your point, though. If 'environmentalism' is to be voluntary, it needs to be made VERY easy - we're creatures of habit and change is hard.